Crime and criminology Books

Book SynopsisAbleism is embedded in Canadian criminal justice institutions, policies, and practices, making incarceration and institutionalization dangerous even deadly for disabled people. Disability Injustice brings together highly original work by a range of scholars and activists who explore disability in the historical and contemporary Canadian criminal justice system.The contributors confront challenging topics such as eugenics and crime control; the pathologizing of difference as deviance; processes of criminalization based on discretionary, biased approaches to physical and mental health; and the role of disability justice activism in contesting longstanding discrimination and exclusion. Weaving together disability and sociolegal studies, criminology, and law, Disability Injustice examines disability in contexts that include policing and surveillance, sentencing and the courts, prisons and other carceral spaces, and alternatives to confinement.This provoTable of Contents1 Resisting the Criminalization of Disability: Cripping Disability Injustice toward Accessible Decarceral Futures / Kelly Fritsch, Jeffrey Monaghan, and Emily van der MeulenPart 1: Practices and Processes of Criminalization2 From Prisoner to Patient: Mental Health and Toronto’s Andrew Mercer Reformatory for Females, 1880–1969 / Theresa L. Raymond 3 Histories of Living in a Negative Relation to the Law: Resistance to HIV Criminalization / Alexander McClelland4 The Criminalization of Sex Work: Creating Conditions for Disability / Lindsay Blewett5 The Judicialization of Everyday Life in Quebec: Intellectual Disability, Sexuality, and Control / Guillaume Ouellet, Lisandre Labrecque-Lebeau, Pierre Pariseau-Legault, and Emmanuelle BernheimPart 2: The Criminal (In)Justice System6 Police Encounters with “People in Crisis”: Mental Health and Policing / Alok Mukherjee 7 Therapeutic Justice or Epistemic Injustice? The Case of Mental Health Courts in Québec / Sue-Ann MacDonald, Véronique Fortin, and Stéphanie Houde8 Conceptualizing Jury Representation: Research on Physical Disability and the “Larger Community” in Canadian Jury Rolls / Richard Jochelson and Michelle Bertrand9 Punishing Disability and Trauma: Evaluating the Use of Segregation in Canadian Prisons / Megan RuscianoPart 3: Reconceptualizing Disability and Reframing Justice10 Disability, Politics, and Collectively Reimagining Justice: Challenging the Ableist Contours of the 1969 Canadian Criminal Code Reform / River Rossi11 The Politics of Death-Making/Assisted Suicide: A Castoriadan Reading / Ravi Malhotra12 #Endpoliceviolence: Nonhegemonic Bodies, Police Violence, and Abolitionist Politics / Abigail Curlew and Jeffrey Monaghan13 Refuting Carceral Logics and their Alternatives: Toward Noncarceral (Disability) Futures / Liat Ben-MosheIndex

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Book SynopsisAbleism is embedded in Canadian criminal justice institutions, policies, and practices, making incarceration and institutionalization dangerous even deadly for disabled people. Disability Injustice brings together highly original work by a range of scholars and activists who explore disability in the historical and contemporary Canadian criminal justice system.The contributors confront challenging topics such as eugenics and crime control; the pathologizing of difference as deviance; processes of criminalization based on discretionary, biased approaches to physical and mental health; and the role of disability justice activism in contesting longstanding discrimination and exclusion. Weaving together disability and sociolegal studies, criminology, and law, Disability Injustice examines disability in contexts that include policing and surveillance, sentencing and the courts, prisons and other carceral spaces, and alternatives to confinement.This provoTable of Contents1 Resisting the Criminalization of Disability: Cripping Disability Injustice toward Accessible Decarceral Futures / Kelly Fritsch, Jeffrey Monaghan, and Emily van der MeulenPart 1: Practices and Processes of Criminalization2 From Prisoner to Patient: Mental Health and Toronto’s Andrew Mercer Reformatory for Females, 1880–1969 / Theresa L. Raymond 3 Histories of Living in a Negative Relation to the Law: Resistance to HIV Criminalization / Alexander McClelland4 The Criminalization of Sex Work: Creating Conditions for Disability / Lindsay Blewett5 The Judicialization of Everyday Life in Quebec: Intellectual Disability, Sexuality, and Control / Guillaume Ouellet, Lisandre Labrecque-Lebeau, Pierre Pariseau-Legault, and Emmanuelle BernheimPart 2: The Criminal (In)Justice System6 Police Encounters with “People in Crisis”: Mental Health and Policing / Alok Mukherjee 7 Therapeutic Justice or Epistemic Injustice? The Case of Mental Health Courts in Québec / Sue-Ann MacDonald, Véronique Fortin, and Stéphanie Houde8 Conceptualizing Jury Representation: Research on Physical Disability and the “Larger Community” in Canadian Jury Rolls / Richard Jochelson and Michelle Bertrand9 Punishing Disability and Trauma: Evaluating the Use of Segregation in Canadian Prisons / Megan RuscianoPart 3: Reconceptualizing Disability and Reframing Justice10 Disability, Politics, and Collectively Reimagining Justice: Challenging the Ableist Contours of the 1969 Canadian Criminal Code Reform / River Rossi11 The Politics of Death-Making/Assisted Suicide: A Castoriadan Reading / Ravi Malhotra12 #Endpoliceviolence: Nonhegemonic Bodies, Police Violence, and Abolitionist Politics / Abigail Curlew and Jeffrey Monaghan13 Refuting Carceral Logics and their Alternatives: Toward Noncarceral (Disability) Futures / Liat Ben-MosheIndex

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Book Synopsis"I served not in defense of the bourgeois order, but only for a crumb of bread since I was burdened with five small children." "From 1923 to 1925 I worked as a musician but later my earnings weren't steady and I quickly stopped. Without an income to...Trade ReviewAlexopoulos explores the phenomenon of listhensy—those whom the Bolshevik regime categorized as 'exploiters' and the first Soviet constitution of 1918 formally disenfranchised.... This book suggests several important findings. Apart from details about the group's social profile (for example, gender, occupation, and ethnicity), it demonstrates the profound change in the meaning of this category from the mid-1920s—namely, from merely denoting exclusion from the electoral system to designation a group subject to pervasive discrimination and acute economic deprivation (which, for some, included deportation and hard labor).... It explores a new complex of sources and makes a significant contribution to our understanding of Soviet social history. -- Gregory L. Freeze, Brandeis University * Slavonica *Alexopoulos made a systematic study of thousands of the 100,000 records available and came up with new information on the fate of Kulaks, who were perceived class enemies between 1926 and 1936. This is the first book to analyze the specifics of this aspect of Soviet history. * Library Journal *At the core of this book is a painstakingly assembled database consisting of hundreds of individual petitions and case files that Alexopoulos uses to discuss the lishentsy as a loosely defined social category.... In many senses a methodological tour de force, Alexopoulos's database allows her to detail in sweeping empirical terms the trials and tribulations of thousands of forgotten casualties of socialist construction.... Stalin's Outcasts deserves to be widely read. -- David Brandenberger, University of Richmond * Slavic Review *Offers new perspectives on the old problem of Russia's 'missing' middle class, by taking us far from the thematic and chronological limits conventionally imposed on our views of this social group. We get a new sense of the vigor and scale of the emerging 'commercial culture' and its celebration of a marketplace of values in Russia before 1917. -- Dan Healey, University of Wales * Cultural and Social History *The past decade has been an exciting time for scholars of Soviet history. Following the collapse of the communist system, the Russian government declassified millions of official documents and thus provided researchers with a wealth of new information about the Soviet regime and its subjects. Many historians, myself included, have boasted about their access to newly opened archival materials, but few can match the claim of Golfo Alexopoulos, who not only gained access to declassified documents, but actually discovered an archive that few scholars even knew existed. On the remote edge of a small town in Siberia, behind a concrete wall topped with barbed wire, Alexopoulos located the Archive for the Preservation of Reserve Records, a state repository for over 100,000 case files on people deprived of rights under the Stalin regime. Based on these files, and on a range of materials from other archives, Alexopoulos has written a fascinating monograph on Stalinist definitions of citizenship and the suffering endured by those excluded from Soviet polity.... With this book, Alexopoulos makes a valuable contribution to the field of Soviet history. Its significance derives both from the importance of her topic and the originality of her research. The book deserves a wide audience among historians of Russia and will be read with interest by other scholars as well. -- David L. Hoffman, Ohio State University * American Historical Review *We knew little about Soviet people who were constitutionally deprived of electoral rights. Golfo Alexopoulos is the first to tell their story, and she does it thanks to ingenious research in nine archives. Her book contributes not only to our understanding of early Soviet society. It should be required reading also for scholars interested in practices of social ostracism. -- Gabor T. Rittersporn, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris-Berlin * The Russian Review *

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Book SynopsisRenovating Russia is a richly comparative investigation of late Imperial and early Soviet medico-scientific theories of moral and social disorder. Daniel Beer argues that in the late Imperial years liberal psychiatrists, psychologists, and criminologists grappled with an intractable dilemma. They sought to renovate Russia, to forge a modern...Trade ReviewBeer offers a wealth of new material on the pre-revolutionary roots of the intellectual apparatus used by the Bolsheviks to make sense of their society. The book offers a convincing case in favor of seeing the Soviet modernization project, not as a deviation from European modernity, but as 'a legitimate offspring of the modern spirit,' as Zygmunt Bauman has put it. The book also effectively challenges a common perception that the biological paradigm for understanding social issues was completely marginal to the Russian intellectual tradition.... Daniel Beer succeeds in offering an unexpected perspective on Russian and pan-European influences on Soviet socialism. * Times Literary Supplement *Table of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1. "Morel's Children"Chapter 2. The Etiology of DegenerationChapter 3. “The Flesh and Blood of Society”Chapter 4. “Microbes of the Mind”Chapter 5. Social Isolation and Coercive: Treatment after the RevolutionConclusionBibliography of Primary SourcesIndex

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Book SynopsisCorpses mark surrealism's path through the twentieth century, providing material evidence of the violence in modern life. Though the shifting group of poets, artists, and critics who made up the surrealist movement were witness to total war...Trade Review"For most people, crime is an abstraction, but an abstraction that generates surreal fear; hence the popularity of mysteries and horror stories. Aldous Huxley said the subject matter of literature came from the crime pages of newspapers, in effect, real life. Auden said a poet is a 'gossip.' Eburne knows this and respects the psyche's integral measure of terror in this examination of 'the role of violent crime in the writing, art, and political thought of the surrealist movement' after the horrors of WWI. Copiously (in places grotesquely) illustrated, this study is an original take on the necessary blend of politics and sociology and their nefarious offshoots of gutter journalism, lurid dime novels, rumor, propaganda, and finally, serious art—a shaky, volatile mix that is in one's face, mind, and sometimes nightmares. The visuals contribute viscerally to the substantive research, presented in journalistic, readable prose that depicts the noirish nature of subjects and people. Would one expect otherwise with chapters titled 'On Murder, Considered as One of the Surrealist Arts,' 'Germaine Berton and the Ethics of Assassination,' and 'Persecution Mania'? This book is well done and delicious fun. Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty, general readers."—Choice, March 2009"Jonathan P. Eburne picks up cultural developments in France around 1920, when Dada came to Paris, and analyses how Surrealist art and writing represented criminal violence and integrated it into a developing political consciousness. . . . All Eburne's case studies are assiduously detailed"—Peter Read, Times Literary Supplement, July 3, 2009"Eburne substantially raises the stakes as far as the scholarly understanding of surrealism is concerned. . . . Alert to the fact that one has to engage with the underlying collective essence of the surrealist spirit, he locates an essential thematic (in this case, crime) that can be seen to bind together certain fundamental surrealist attitudes . . . . Eburne's book is one of those rare things: a work of criticism that is not simply reflective of its subject but enlarges it."—Michael Richardson, Phosphor: A Surrealist Luminescence, Autumn 2009"Surrealism and the Art of Crime is a terrific book. The quality is unbeatable, the writing brilliant and concise. Jonathan P. Eburne's point about the dynamism of thinking about criminality and the many links to political action is highly original. His discussion of the various images related to crime is professional and entertaining. The way in which Eburne brings the topic up to the current moment cannot fail to bring the most jaded readers of surrealism back to an attentive appreciation of the high points of its history and presence."—Mary Ann Caws, Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature, English, and French, The Graduate School of the City University of New York"In Surrealism and the Art of Crime, Jonathan P. Eburne offers a revisionist analysis of surrealism and its impact from its origins to the 1950s. His focus on the artists' interest in criminal figures, faits divers, and political violence defines the often underappreciated subtlety of the relationship the surrealists forged between aesthetics and politics."—Carolyn J. Dean, Brown University

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Book SynopsisIn response to a growing human trafficking problem and domestic and international pressure, human trafficking and the use of slave labor were first criminalized in Russia in 2003. In Trafficking Justice, Lauren A. McCarthy explains why Russian police, prosecutors, and judges have largely ignored this new weapon in their legal arsenal, despite the fact that the law was intended to make it easier to pursue trafficking cases.Using a combination of interview data, participant observation, and an original dataset of more than 5,500 Russian news media articles on human trafficking cases, McCarthy explores how trafficking cases make their way through the criminal justice system, covering multiple forms of the crimesexual, labor, and child traffickingover the period 20032013. She argues that to understand how law enforcement agencies have dealt with trafficking, it is critical to understand how their institutional machinerythe incentives, culture, and structure of their organizationsTrade ReviewIn a fine addition to the literature on how Russian governance really works, McCarthy traces this laxity to what she calls 'institutional machinery': incentives, structures, and a culture operating within Russian legal and judicial institutions that militate against the strenuous enforcement of new rules that introduce complex choices and burdensome procedures on law enforcement agencies. -- Robert Legvold * Foreign Affairs *It is rare to encounter serious research on the implementation of new laws anywhere, let alone in Russia, and even rarer such a sensitive, nuanced, well-written, and authoritative account. InTrafficking JusticeLauren McCarthy explains how in 2003 Russia added to its criminal code articles on human trafficking and the use of slave labor, in part to satisfy international obligations and modelled on language from other countries. The author brings to bear the best insights and perspectives from the interdisciplinary field of socio-legal studies... this book has a lot to say to anyone interested in the pursuit of a reform agenda through legal change. -- Peter H. Solomon Jr. * The Russian Review *The volume takes into account more than 5,500 relevant articles made available in Russian mass media, interview data, and participant observation to summarize the results of how the Russian authorities treat this painful problem. Among the achievements of this research study is its useful analysis of prostitution-related human trafficking. McCarthy selected an impressive list of sources that includes most recent studies of this subject alongside the works of previous generations of scholars. The language of this book is accessible to various levels of readership and is one of many merits of this worthy book. -- Y. Polsky * Choice *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. History, Trends, and Contours of Human Trafficking in Russia2. The Human Trafficking Laws3. Law Enforcement's Institutional Machinery and the Criminal Process4. The Identification of Trafficking Cases5. The Investigation of Human Trafficking Cases6. Indictment, Trial, and SentencingConclusionAppendix A: Methodology Appendix B: Official Russian Law Enforcement Statistics on Human Trafficking CrimesLegal Sources References Index

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Book SynopsisEntering the shady world of what he calls "violent entrepreneurship," Vadim Volkov explores the economic uses of violence and coercion in Russia in the 1990s. Violence has played, he shows, a crucial role in creating the institutions of a new market...Trade ReviewViolent Entrepreneurs offers an engaging glimpse into the darker recesses of Russia's shadow economy.... Volkov's work is exceptionally well researched, relying on statistical data as well as surprisingly candid firsthand interviews with members of criminal groups, heads of private protection companies, active and former police employees, experts, and businesspeople to present its case. * Perspectives on Political Science *A richly documented, complex book.... Volkov establishes a critical distance from the state and its agencies, important in principle and particularly so in a period of rapid social change, with new legal codes shifting the boundaries of crime and the enforcement of public order moving, in practice, into private hands. * International Affairs *This impressive study by Russian sociologist Vadim Volkov investigates the economic and social evolution of the nascent entrepreneurial class in Russia and accounts for its disturbingly intimate liaison with violence and crime.... Volkov considers the implications of the weakened and discredited state against the background of new economic agents who, desperate to secure their property and monopoly rights in various markets, have become accustomed to the use of force. * Russian Review *This is a splendid book, a well-written and well-researched contribution to the field that deserves a wide and appreciative readership.... This excellent, literate, and insightful work is both scholarly enough to advance study of Russian criminality and 'violent capitalism' into fruitful new avenues and readable enough that it need not scare off undergraduates—and as such to be welcomed wholeheartedly. * Slavic Review *Volkov supplies the missing link between almost everything else you may read about business in post-Communist Russia and almost everything else you can read about organized crime there. He treats the two activities, business and crime, with equal respect as fields of sociological inquiry, and so arrives at the first satisfying account of how they affect each other. * New York Review of Books *Table of ContentsPreface1. Veblen's Warning2. Violent Entrepreneurship3. The Violence-Managing Agency4. Bandits and Capitalists5. The Privatization of the Power Ministries6. The Politics of State FormationKey to InterviewsGlossaryIndex

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Book SynopsisThe working class in New York City was remade in the mid-nineteenth century. In the 1820s a substantial majority of city artisans were native-born; by the 1850s three-quarters of the city's laboring men and women were immigrants. How did the influx of this large group of young adults affect the city's working class? What determined the texture...Trade Review"This is one of the most important works I have read on working-class life. It will be widely read, praised, and debated." -- Elliott J. Gorn, Miami University

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Book SynopsisIn Miscarriages of Justice in Canada, Kathryn M. Campbell offers an extensive overview of wrongful convictions, bringing together current sociological, criminological, and legal research, as well as current case-law examples.Trade Review"Miscarriages of Justice is a darkly compelling book not because it is sensational, but because it is so matter of fact." -- Holly Doan * Blacklock’s Reporter, May 16, 2020 *Table of ContentsChapter 1 - Introduction Chapter 2: Eyewitness Identification and Misidentification Chapter 3: The Role of Legal Professionals in Contributing to Wrongful Convictions: Police Chapter 4: The Role of Legal Professionals in Contributing to Wrongful Convictions: Prosecutors, Defense Counsel, and the Judiciary Chapter 5 - False Confessions Chapter 6 - In-custody Informants Chapter 7 - DNA Evidence: Raising the Bar Chapter 8 -Forensic Evidence and Expert Testimony Chapter 9 - Conventional Remedies through the Courts and Conviction Review Chapter 10 - Commissions of Inquiry: Lessons Learned Chapter 11 - Compensation: The "Obstacle Course" Chapter 12 - The Impact of Public Lobbying on Wrongful Convictions: The Role of the Media, Lobby Groups and Innocence Projects Chapter 13: Lessons from Other Jurisdictions Chapter 14 - Final Conclusions

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Book SynopsisWhen Ben Langston took a guard job at a local prison, it was because there were few other options. Jail Speak is his memoir about working in the incarceration industry.Trade Review“Ben Langston’s memoir offers a clear-eyed and revelatory look into the lives of incarcerated men and those who are charged to guard them. His experiences inside this secluded world debunk the uninformed narratives outsiders hold as truths and bring to light stories brimming with empathy. Jail Speak is a poignant, remarkable book.”“Jail Speak is a wrenching, authentic, and haunting account of life inside the state prison where Langston worked as a corrections officer for three years. In terse, eloquent prose, Langston spares no detail as he transports readers inside, where he translates ‘jail speak,’ the vernacular of men in prison—both the inmates and the guards—and exposes the profoundly troubling day-to-day reality of the prison industrial complex. Jail Speak is a heartbreaking, viscerally honest, timely, and critically important book. If you read only one book about prison, make it Jail Speak; you will not find a more acutely truthful, intelligent, and deeply moving narrative about life behind bars for prisoners and their keepers.”“Prepare to be uncomfortable, to be challenged out of your certainties, to confront realities you’ve successfully ignored or diminished, to peek into obscurities of human attitudes and behaviors. But also prepare to be overwhelmed with literary power, and even beauty amidst ugliness, a subtle earnestness amidst all the layers of irony and self-protecting distancing. For underneath the narrator’s bravado is the writer’s bravura. All of this, and more, awaits between the covers of Ben Langston’s masterful evocation of Jail Speak.” * author of Disparates *

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Book SynopsisBreaking the Codes is a cultural history of the fin-de-siècle that uses the "problem" of the criminal woman to examine both the debates around the appropriate place of women in French society and the ways in which issues of gender were central to the most important cultural transformations of the period.Trade Review"Well-written, informed by feminist and literary theory, and ambitious, Breaking the Codes is a strong entry in the new cultural historiography of crime and criminal justice." -- Social HistoryTable of ContentsCONTENTS 1 2 3 4 5

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Book SynopsisThis is a collection of essays critically examining the historical development of the modern criminal law.Trade Review"Intricacy and depth of scholarship... characterize the chapters. Modern Histories of Crime and Punishment has been a bracing intellectual excursion, and... I found each of the articles to range from interesting to fascinating."—Law and Politics Book Review"This collection of highly original works explores the construction of criminal law discourse and its problematic relationship to the enterprise of state punishment. There are many scholars whose work intersects with this volume, but no other published collection on the history of substantive criminal law offers anything like the range and coherence put forth here."—Jonathan Simon, Boalt Hall School of Law, UC Berkeley"Modern Histories of Crime and Punishment involves an original and interdisciplinary approach to the area of criminal law. This is an exceptional book." —Alan Norrie, King's College, LondonTable of ContentsContents Contributors iii Introduction: Regarding Criminal Law Historically Markus D. Dubber and Lindsay Farmer 1 1. Character, Capacity, Outcome: Toward a Framework for Assessing the Shifting Pattern of Criminal Responsibility in Modern English Law Nicola Lacey 000 2. Criminal Responsibility and the Proof of Guilt Lindsay Farmer 000 3. "An Inducement to Morbid Minds": Politics and Madness in the Victorian Courtroom Joel Peter Eigen 000 4. The Meaning of Killing Guyora Binder 000 5. "An Extraordinarily Beautiful Document": Jefferson's Bill for Proportioning Crimes and Punishments and the Challenge of Republican Punishment Markus D. Dubber 000 6. The Myth of Private Prosecution in England, 1790-1850 Bruce P. Smith 000 7. Hans Litten and the Politics of Criminal Law in the Weimar Republic Benjamin Hett 000 8. Civilizing Darwin: Holmes on Criminal Law Gerry Leonard 000 9. Bodies, Words, Identities: The Moving Targets of the Criminal Law Mariana Valverde 000 10. Criminal Law at a Fault Line of Imperial Authority: Inter- Racial Homicide Trials in British India Martin Wiener 000 11. Crime and Punishment on the Tea Plantations of Colonial India Elizabeth Kolsky 000 12. "Enfeebling the Arm of Justice": Perjury and Prevarication in British India Wendie Ellen Schneider 000 Index

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Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive examination of U.S. efforts to register and monitor individuals in response to real or perceived criminal threats.Trade Review"Knowledge as Power provides critical analysis of problems with popular criminal registration and community notification laws. Its comprehensive inquiry confirms that legislation based on fear and anger wastes valuable energy and resources when contrasted with a more rational approach. This book credibly debunks the myth that harsh reactionary laws enhance public safety and crime prevention." -- Rafael E. Silva * The Champion *" Knowledge as Power provides a highly original look at the forgotten history of registration laws and startling trends in their use today." -- Joseph E. Kennedy * University of North Carolina *"We now use registration law as a response to crime on an unprecedented scale, and its ad hoc expansion has affected the liberty of an enormous number of people. Logan perceptively discusses how this shift both reflects and influences major changes in public expectations about our government. This book not only contributes to the field, but will define it for quite some time." -- Ronald F. Wright * Wake Forest University *"Sex offenders, much like witches in earlier times, have become the dehumanized objects of public fears in an anxious age. Logan subtly tells the uniquely American tale of sex offender registration and notification. It will long stand as the authoritative account of a challenging chapter in American life." -- Michael Tonry * University of Minnesota *"In this outstanding study Wayne Logan locates our recent spate of tough registration and notification laws aimed at sex offenders, in a long history of using the collection and dissemination of knowledge about criminal identities to prevent crime. These practices did not begin with sex, and have reflected not just panic, but also optimism about the capacity of identification systems to prevent crime. Historically the results have been modest, but combined since the 1990s with an unprecedented embrace by the American public of harsh punishment, registration and notification laws threaten to transform the practices of criminal justice today." -- Jonathan Simon, University of California * Berkeley *

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Book SynopsisIn the years between the Civil War and the establishment of Oklahoma statehood, Choctaws suffered almost daily from murders, thefts, and assaults - often at the hands of Choctaws themselves. This book focuses on two unexplored murder cases to illustrate the intense factionalism that emerged among tribal members during those lawless years.

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Book SynopsisIn 1913, Charlie Birger began his career as a bootlegger, supplying Southern Illinois with whiskey and beer. Drawing on a cast of the living, the dead and the soon-to-be-dead, DeNeal recreates Prohibition-era Illinois, depicting shoot-outs, gang wars, arrests, trials and convictions.

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Book SynopsisAfter El Salvador's brutal civil war ended in 1992, crime rates shot up. People began to speak of the peace as "worse than the war." This study examines how narratives of post-conflict violence, told by ordinary people, offered ways of coping with uncertainty during a stunted transition to democracy.Trade Review"Moodie's study provides a fascinating account of how daily micro relations between individuals permeate macro features of a society. The book also demonstrates the possibilities opened up by the kind of qualitative methodological approach adopted by Moodie, going beyond the statistical data on El Salvador's rates of crime and homicide, to tell the story of how ordinary people's experiences of violent crime are constructed and the hidden and changing political consequences of such constructions." * Bulletin of Latin American Research *"In this compelling and original book, anthropologist Ellen Moodie analyzes crime stories that circulated in El Salvador in the postwar period. Her goal is not to understand crime per se, or even public perceptions of crime, but rather to make sense of the postwar period itself. . . . Beautifully written, El Salvador in the Aftermath of Peace moves in time and space, returning repeatedly to sites and moments that symbolize hopes and disappointments." * Susan Bibler Coutin, University of California, Irvine *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Big Stories and the Stories Behind the Stories 2 Critical Code-Switching and the State of Unexception 3 "Today They Rob You and They Kill You" 4 Adventure Time in San Salvador 5 Democratic Disenchantment 6 Unknowing the Other Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisIn the Shadow of the Gallows reveals how a sense of racialized culpability shaped Americans' understandings of personhood prior to the Civil War. Jeannine Marie DeLombard draws from legal, literary, and popular texts to address fundamental questions about race, responsibility, and American civic belonging.Trade Review"This is a powerful book filled with important, paradigm-shifting ideas about the presentation of African Americans in print and the media. Though not suited to the casual reader, its contents are thought provoking and address contemporary race issues in ways that scholarship on the history of print and readership rarely does." * Journal of American History *"In this impressively researched and provocative study, Jeannine Marie DeLombard argues for an alternative literary and legal history of early black writing and, more broadly, nineteenth-century cultural formations of racial subjectivity." * New England Quarterly *"DeLombard's expertly researched book stands as a model of interdisciplinary scholarship, and her arguments on the foundational nexus of race, criminality, and citizenship offer scholars of English and history much to consider. In the Shadow of the Gallows, with DeLombard's deft analysis of early American literature, persuasively pushes back the plantation-to-prison narrative to the very founding of the nation, and demonstrates the importance of criminality in the development of early black subjectivity." * Law and History Review *"DeLombard ingeniously shows from deep research how much the creation of an African American 'voice' stemmed from ancient assumptions about race, criminality, and guilt. Her reading of Frederick Douglass's arrest and jailing as a young slave rebel is alone worth the price of this book, but she demands that we see race, literature, and citizenship in the age of the Civil War as a national crucible played out in courts, on gallows, in jails, and ultimately on the printed page." * David W. Blight, author of American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era *"In her exquisitely written In the Shadow of the Gallows, Jeannine DeLombard reads early American criminal law in conjunction with the idea of social contract to illustrate the intricacies of political belonging from the early Republic through the antebellum period. Through the double helix of print and legal history, she chronicles the metamorphic role of authorship in African Americans' bids for enfranchisement against the backdrop of a nation entangled in contradictory definitions of personhood and property and of criminality and civility. Exemplary of humanities scholarship at its best, the book establishes the connections between American literature and the African American struggle for civic inclusion." * Priscilla Wald, Duke University *"I have long thought that DeLombard is at the absolute top of the scholars working on law and literature in North America, and In the Shadow of the Gallows confirms her status." * Alfred Brophy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill *"The significance of DeLombard's project can be measured by the centrality of its claims to a wide variety of fields. The issues that DeLombard takes up here strike at the heart of the current disciplinary configurations defining not only American and African American literary studies but also American and African American history and critical race studies." * Lloyd Pratt, University of Oxford *Table of ContentsIntroduction: How a Slave Was Made a Man PART I Chapter 1. Contracting Guilt: Mixed Character, Civil Slavery, and the Social Compact Chapter 2. Black Catalogues: Crime, Print, and the Rise of the Black Self PART II Chapter 3. The Ignominious Cord: Crime, Counterfactuals, and the New Black Politics Chapter 4. The Work of Death: Time, Crime, and Personhood in Jacksonian America Chapter 5. How Freeman Was Made a Madman: Race, Capacity, and Citizenship Chapter 6. Who Aint a Slaver? Citizenship, Piracy, and Slaver Narratives Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Alicia Peter's ethnography provides the most lucid analysis of the immensely contested operations of human trafficking response that I have ever read. It illuminates how cultural beliefs and values about gender, sexuality, and victimization have fractured the interpretation and implementation of the law in different sites." * Sealing Cheng, author of On the Move for Love: Migrant Entertainers and the U.S. Military in South Korea *"Responding to Human Trafficking is an important contribution to the literature on human trafficking. Alicia W. Peters successfully takes us inside the maze of the anti-trafficking regime, illustrating conflicts in priorities, challenges in advocacy work, and the continued need to design a victim-centered system." * Rhacel Parrenas, University of Southern California *"Alicia W. Peters illustrates the ways in which ideology is incorporated into U.S. anti-trafficking law. With unprecedented access to service providers working with victims of trafficking in New York City, federal officials, and a number of victims, Peters suggests how to utilize survivors' stories to frame future research and how to use their voices in the policy debates." * Elzbieta Gozdziak, Georgetown University *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations Preface Introduction PART I. TRAFFICKING ON THE BOOKS Chapter 1. A Dichotomy Emerges PART II. THINKING, ENVISIONING, AND INTERPRETING TRAFFICKING Chapter 2. The Experts Make Sense of the Law Chapter 3. "Things That Involve Sex Are Just Different" Chapter 4. Defining Trafficking Through Survivor Experience PART III. THE LAW IN ACTION Chapter 5. Intersections on the Ground Chapter 6. Moving the Antitrafficking Response Forward APPENDICES A. Data Archiving Requirements and Threats to Confidentiality B. Interviewees Quoted in the Text Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisFormer CIA Deputy Director of Counterterrorism and FBI Senior Intelligence Adviser Philip Mudd recounts his involvement in the fight against Al Qaeda, revealing how intelligence analysts understand and evaluate potential terror threats and communicate with political leaders.Trade Review"A riveting, behind-the-scenes account of the world of counterterrorism. Mudd has been at the heart of the chase for the world's most dangerous people and makes us feel we are there with him." * Tina Brown, editor-in-chief of The Daily Beast/Newsweek *"Takedown is a must read for anyone who needs to understand terrorism, intelligence or the inner workings of the government's national security apparatus" * John Miller, Senior Correspondent at CBS News *"Philip Mudd is an intelligence officer whose analysis is rarely wrong, and a public servant whose moral compass is always right. Mudd has the unique ability to not only find meaning out of chaos, but also the ability to clearly pass on that information to the policy makers who need it." * George J. Tenet, Former Director of Central Intelligence *"This gripping narrative effectively conveys the breadth of the challenges confronted by counterterrorism analysis. Philip Mudd's perspective-that of someone who sought to understand the unintelligible-is a valuable addition to extant histories of 9/11 and what followed." * Richard H. Immerman, Temple University *Table of ContentsPreface Chapter 1: The 9/11 Aftermath Chapter 2: A Return to Langley Chapter 3: The Spreading Threat: Moving Beyond the Core of Al Qaeda Chapter 4: The Second War: The Intelligence Problem of Iraq Chapter 5: A New View at CIA: Deputy Director of the Counterterrorist Center Chapter 6: The Years of Threat Chapter 7: Watching Threats at Home: The FBI Calls Chapter 8: One More Transfer: Intelligence at the Department of Homeland Security Index

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Book SynopsisFocuses on the girls' experiences of violence and the inequities of the criminal justice system. Offering a critical assessment of what she describes as a gender-insensitive juvenile justice system, the author takes us inside female detention centers and explores the worlds of those who are incarcerated.Trade ReviewA much needed, well-grounded exploration of the trials and tribulations of aggressive girls who fall prey to the accumulation of social risk factors in their lives. Schaffner blends first-hand accounts with empirical data from multiple sources to tell a compelling nonfiction narrative. -- James Garbarino * author of See Jane Hit: Why Girls Are Growing More Violent and What We Can Do A *This is a superb work, intermingling poetry, narrative, interviews, and examples to create a fascinating overview of what girls experience in the juvenile corrections system, as well as how they are perceived by the people entrusted with their care. Schaffner's book is well-conceived, beautifully written and extremely clear. -- Lynn Chancer * author of High Profile Crimes: When Legal Cases Become Social Causes *Girls in Trouble with the Law offers readers a brilliant window for re-viewing the gender, race, and class politics of juvenile justice. Readers will be filled with outrage, and yet fueled by Schaffner's passionate sense of possibility and vision for 'what must be.' -- Michelle Fine * Distinguished Professor of Psychology, The Graduate Center, CUNY *Girls in Trouble with the Law is an important addition to the growing scholarship on girls and women and the legal system. The strength of the book is Schaffner's use of the girls' own words as they describe their family lives and the pattern of sexual and physical abuse at the hands of parents and other adults who should offer them nurturance and protection. Schaffner performs an important service for these victims. Her advocacy of early intervention...[and] new approaches to meeting their needs should be acted upon by schools and social service agencies. * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Tables Preface Introduction: Girls Trouble the Law 1. New Troubles for Girls 2. Injury, Gender, and Trouble 3. Empty Families, Sexualuty, and Trouble 4. Gender, Violence, and Trouble 5. Children, Gender, and Corrections 6. Conclusion: Pathways, Policies, Programs, and Politics Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisEnron, Haliburton, ExxonValdez, 'shock and awe'-their mere mention brings forth images of scandal, collusion, fraud, and human and environmental destruction. While great power and great crimes have always been linked, media exposure in recent decades has brought increased attention to the devious exploits of economic and political elites.Despite growing attention to crimes by those in positions of trust, however, violations in business and similar wrongdoing in government are still often treated as fundamentally separate problems. In State-Corporate Crime, Raymond J. Michalowski and Ronald C. Kramer bring together fifteen essays to show that those in positions of political and economic power frequently operate in collaboration, and are often all too willing to sacrifice the well-being of the many for the private profit and political advantage of the few.Drawing on case studies including the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger, Ford Explorer rollovers, thTrade ReviewThis volume is a welcome addition for those scholars who study the relationship between government and corporate crime. -- Gray Cavender * coauthor of Corporate Crime Under Attack: The Fight to Criminalize Business Viol *State-Corporate Crime is the most comprehensive articulation of an important criminological concept and is a valuable contribution to the literature of criminology. -- David Friedrichs * Professor, University of Scranton *This volume is a welcome addition for those scholars who study the relationship between government and corporate crime. -- Gray Cavender * coauthor of Corporate Crime Under Attack: The Fight to Criminalize Business Viol *State-Corporate Crime is the most comprehensive articulation of an important criminological concept and is a valuable contribution to the literature of criminology. -- David Friedrichs * Professor, University of Scranton *Table of ContentsPreface The Critique of Power / Raymond J. Michalowski / Ronald C. Kramer The Original Formulation / Ronald C. Kramer / Raymond J. Michalowski The Space Shuttle Challenger Explosion / Ronald C. Kramer The Fire in Hamlet / Judy Aulette / Raymond J. Michalowski Nuclear Weapons Production / David Kauzlarich / Ronald C. Kramer The Crash of Valujet Flight / Rick A. Matthews / David Kauzlarich Globalization, State-Corporate Crime, and Women / Nancy A. Wonders / Mona J. Danner Ordinary Business in Nazi Germany / Rick A. Matthews Bridgestone-Firestone, Ford, and the NHTSA / Christopher W. Mullins The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill / Tricia Cruciotti / Rick A. Matthews Enron-Era Economics versus Economic Democracy / Raymond J. Michalowski / Ronald C. Kramer Violations of Treaty Rights / Linda Robyn The Invasion of Iraq / Ronald C. Kramer / Raymond J. Michalowski Iraq and Halliburton / Dawn Rothe Taking Stock of Theory and Research / David Kauzlarich / Rick A. Matthews References Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisFemale drug addicts are often stereotyped either as promiscuous, lazy, and selfish, or as weak, scared, and trapped into addiction. This title presents a critical feminist analysis of the drug world. By shifting the discussion to one centered on women's agency and empowerment, it reveals the experiences and social relationships of women addicts.Table of ContentsDimensions of women's power in the illicit drug economy / Tammy L. Anderson Seeing women, power, and drugs through the lens of embodiment / Elizabeth Ettorre Demonstrating a female-specific agency and empowerment in drug selling / R. Baskin and Ira Sommers Negotiating the streets : women, power, and resistance in street-life social networks / Christopher W. Mullins Women's agency in the context of drug use / Yasmina Katsulis and Kim M. Blankenship Facilitating change for women? : exploring the role of therapeutic jurisprudence in drug court / Christine A. Saum and Allison R. Gray Negotiating gender for couples in methadone maintenance treatment / Margaret Kelley A spoonful of sugar? : treating women in prison / Margaret S. Malloch More of a danger to myself : community reentry of dually diagnosed females involved with the criminal justice system / Stephanie W. Hartwell "Hustling" to save women's lives : empowerment strategies of recovering HIV-positive women / Michelle Tracy Berger Drug use, prostitution, and globalization : a modest proposal for rethinking policy / Phyllis Coontz and Cate Greibel

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Book SynopsisPolicing Dissent provides a firsthand account of the changing nature of control efforts employed by law enforcement agencies when confronted with mass activism.Trade Review"Policing Dissent is one of the best books I've come across in any field that examines the intersections of globalization, dissent, and late-modern social control." -- Peter Kraska * Senior Research Fellow, and author of Militarizing the American Criminal Justice *"Luis Fernandez's Policing Dissent is a fascinating and courageous book—a book where the crackling energy of contemporary street protest animates a careful analysis of late modern social control." -- Jeff Ferrell * author of Tearing Down the Streets: Adventures in Urban Anarchy *"A fascinating look at a vitally important movement for social change—and the obstacles it faces. Important reading for self-reflective artists." -- Starhawk * Activist and author of Webs of Power: Notes from the Global Uprising *"This book is frightening, urgent—crucial reading." -- Christian Parenti * author of Lockdown America and The Soft Cage *"Fernandez's survey of new protest policing helps us all feel the chill—not just of mass mobilizations but of dissent itself." -- Amory Starr * author of Naming the Enemy and Global Revolt *"An important contribution to our understanding of the state's response to unrest that puts the scholarship on protest policing into contact with the repressice reality." -- Kristian Williams * author of Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America *"Luis Fernandez's Policing Dissent is a first-hand account of the nature and effect of social control practices utilized by police against the emergent American anti-globalization movement. ... a worthwhile piece of research." * Mobilization *"Policing Dissent is one of the best books I've come across in any field that examines the intersections of globalization, dissent, and late-modern social control." -- Peter Kraska * Senior Research Fellow, and author of Militarizing the American Criminal Justice *"Luis Fernandez's Policing Dissent is a fascinating and courageous book—a book where the crackling energy of contemporary street protest animates a careful analysis of late modern social control." -- Jeff Ferrell * author of Tearing Down the Streets: Adventures in Urban Anarchy *"A fascinating look at a vitally important movement for social change—and the obstacles it faces. Important reading for self-reflective artists." -- Starhawk * Activist and author of Webs of Power: Notes from the Global Uprising *"This book is frightening, urgent—crucial reading." -- Christian Parenti * author of Lockdown America and The Soft Cage *"Fernandez's survey of new protest policing helps us all feel the chill—not just of mass mobilizations but of dissent itself." -- Amory Starr * author of Naming the Enemy and Global Revolt *"An important contribution to our understanding of the state's response to unrest that puts the scholarship on protest policing into contact with the repressice reality." -- Kristian Williams * author of Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America *"Luis Fernandez's Policing Dissent is a first-hand account of the nature and effect of social control practices utilized by police against the emergent American anti-globalization movement. ... a worthwhile piece of research." * Mobilization *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Protest, Control, and Policing 2. Perspectives on the Control of Dissent 3. The Anti-Globalization Movement 4. Managing and Regulating Protest: Social Control and the Law 5. This Is What Democracy Looks Like?: The Physical Control of Space 6. "Here Come the Anarchists": The Psychological Control of Space 7. Law Enforcement and Control Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisExplores how societal beliefs about free will and moral responsibility have shaped policies and identifies the differences among the goals, ethos, and actions of the legal and health care systems. This book provides a critical analysis of topics, including legal standards for competency, insanity versus mental illness, and sex offenders.Trade Review"A provocative, challenging, and thoughtful multi-disciplinary investigation of one of the most serious social issues we face. This is a major contribution to the literature." -- Michael Perlin * New York Law School *"This book is informative and, with its reference to specific cases, more interesting than it might otherwise be. Recommended." * Choice *Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements 1 The Social Construction of Mental Illness as a Criminal Justice Problem 2 Systems of Social Control: From Asylums to Prisons 3 Competency to Stand Trial and Competency to Be Executed 4 The Problems with the Insanity Defense: The COnflict between Law and Psychiatry 5 The "Mad" or "Bad" Debate Concerning Sex Offenders 6 Juvenile Offenders, Developmental Competency, and Mental Illness 7 Criminalizing Mental Illness: Does It Matter? References Index

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Book SynopsisPresents an analytical and historical study of the juvenile justice system. Focusing on social reformers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, this work argues that the 'child savers' movement was not an effort to liberate and dignify youth but, instead, a punitive and intrusive attempt to control the lives of working-class urban adolescents.Trade Review"The Child Savers deeply influenced me and dozens of other feminist scholars who have studied social policy critically. This reissue is remarkable in allowing us to rethink it, and nowhere more valuable than in Tony Platt's own thoughtful reconsideration." -- Linda Gordon * professor of history, New York University *"The Child Savers, at forty, is a classic. Accompanied by lively contributions that reflect on its impact and outline recent research, this new edition will ensure that the book lives on, its message always challenging, its relevance undiminished." -- Hugh Cunningham * Professor Emeritus of Social History, University of Kent *"The Child Savers is a classic, and the updated edition is even more relevant today; a must for the informed public and the perceptive student." -- Jock Young * Distinguished Professor of Criminal Justice, City University of New York *"Like a bracing wind, Platt's brilliant inquiry into the oxymoron of juvenile justice demands again that we upend our ritualized system of punishing, containing and crushing our defiant young." -- Bernardine Dohrn * Northwestern University School of Law *Table of ContentsIn Retrospect: Anthony M. Platt's The Child Savers: The Invention of Delinquency, by Miroslava Chávez-GarcíaThe Child Savers: The Invention of DelinquencyThe Child Savers Reconsidered, by Anthony M. PlattThe Child Savers and Three Cycles of Juvenile Justice Reform in Twentieth-Century America, by William BushWomen and Kids in the Court: Feminist History and Anthony Platt's The Child Savers, by Tamara Myers"The "Other" Child-Savers: Racial Politics of the Parental State," by Geoff Ward

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Book SynopsisComprehending Drug Use, the first full-length critical overview of the use of ethnographic methods in drug research, synthesizes more than one hundred years of study on the human encounter with psychotropic drugs.Trade Review"For anyone wanting to obtain a better sense of the range and diversity of historical and contemporary ethnographic research on drugs, this fine book will clearly be the one to consult." -- Geoffrey Hunt * Institute for Scientific Analysis *"Productive and imaginative anthropologists Page and Singer provide a succinct history of the century-long, rapidly expanding field of drug studies. Clear, well written, and neatly organized, this book fills a gap in the literatures of both drug studies and anthropology. Highly recommended." * Choice *"For anyone wanting to obtain a better sense of the range and diversity of historical and contemporary ethnographic research on drugs, this fine book will clearly be the one to consult." -- Geoffrey Hunt * Institute for Scientific Analysis *"Productive and imaginative anthropologists Page and Singer provide a succinct history of the century-long, rapidly expanding field of drug studies. Clear, well written, and neatly organized, this book fills a gap in the literatures of both drug studies and anthropology. Highly recommended." * Choice *Table of ContentsThrough ethnographic eyes The emergence of drug ethnography Systematic modernist ethnography and ethnopharmacology Drug ethnography since the emergence of AIDS Drugs and globalization: from the ground up and the sky down The conduct of drug ethnography: risks, rewards, and ethical quandaries in drug research careers Career paths in drug-related ethnography: from falling to calling Gender and drug use: drug ethnography by women about women The future of drug ethnography as reflected in recent developments

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Book Synopsis Current media and political discourse on crime has long ignored crimes committed by States themselves, despite their greater financial and human toll. For the past two decades, scholars have examined how and why States violate their own laws and international law and explored what can be done to reduce or prevent these injustices. Through a collection of essays by leading scholars in the field, State Crime offers a set of cases exemplifying state criminality along with various methods for controlling governmental transgressions. With topics ranging from crimes of aggression to nuclear weapons to the construction and implementation of social controls, this volume is an indispensable resource for those who examine the behavior of States and those who study crime in its varied forms. Trade Review"An admirable collection of case studies by leading scholars that illuminate the historical and modern contours of state crime." -- Barbara Perry * University of Ontario Institute of Technology *"Given recent highly injurious acts committed by governments around the world, this riveting book is essential reading for scholars, students, activists, and policy makers. A timely and much needed contribution to the field." -- Walter DeKeseredy * author of Contemporary Critical Criminology *"There has been a paucity of research on state crime, but this volume makes an important contribution to the literature and should not only stimulate further research on state crime, but also contribute to social policies that seek to reduce it. Highly recommended." * Choice *Table of ContentsForeword / William J. Chambliss Introduction : Crimes of state and other forms of collective group violence by nonstate actors / M. Cherif Bassiouni Revisiting crimes by the capitalist state / Gregg Barak The crime of the last century and of this century / David O. Friedrichs Nuclear weapons, international law, and the normalization of state crime / Ronald C. Kramer and David Kauzlarich Empire and exceptionalism : the Bush administration's criminal war against Iraq / Ronald C. Kramer and Raymond J. Michalowski Do empires commit state crime? / Peter Iadicola Burundi : a history of conflict and state crime / Kara Hoofnagle Legal precedent, jurisprudence, and state crime : Pinochet and crimes against humanity / Dawn L. Rothe and Michael Bohlander Reinventing controlling state crime and varieties of state crime and its control : what I would have done differently / Jeffrey Ian Ross Complementary and alternative domestic responses to state crime / Dawn L. Rothe The fairness of Gacaca / Roelof H. Haveman and Alphonse Muleefu Assassination of regime elites versus collateral civilian damage / Michael Bohlander and Dawn L. Rothe How to restore justice in Serbia? : a closer look at peoples' opinions about post-war reconciliation / Stephan Parmentier, Marta Valiñas, and Elmar Weitekamp The current status and role of the international criminal court / Christopher W. Mullins

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Book SynopsisExplores the issues that arise from a mother's confinement and provides first-person accounts of the experiences of children with moms behind bars. The author offers a perspective that recognises differences over the long course of a family's interaction with the criminal justice system and presents an unparalleled view into the children's lives both before and after their mothers are imprisoned.Trade Review"Criminology professor Siegel examines the experiences of two groups of children with mothers involved in the criminal justice system: children whose mothers have been arrested but not yet sentenced, and children whose mothers have been incarcerated for at least one year. A very compelling book. Highly recommended." * Choice *"Jane Siegel has written a sociological study that speaks, sotto voce, to the dire need to reform the USA's criminal justice policies and practices. There are times, though, when her text screams out at us. Incarcerated mothers lie at the center of Siegel's text, but their children occupy the field, and this is a battlefield. The children are pitted against poverty, drugs, poor schooling, and violence, and Siegel brings us into their lives—with and without their mothers. Siegel carefully builds a case againtst our 'nation's historic experiment with mass incarceration'." * Teachers College Record *Table of ContentsPART ONE1. Living with Mom—Most of the Time2. Outside the Curtained Windows3. The Ubiquity of Violence4. When the Criminal Justice System Comes CallingPART TWO5. They All Do the Time6. What Lies Ahead

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"The Globalization of Supermax Prisons is a major contribution, sketching the outlines of the supermax phenomenon not just in the United States, but across the globe. The anthology is also well timed to engage with the growing public realization that the now-familiar abuses at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo have their parallel counterparts in domestic U.S. prison." * Crime, Law, and Social Change *"A fine anthology dealing with supermax prisons. The essays provide a wealth of information about why the US and eight other advanced industrialized nations adopted the supermax prototype. These articles are consistently well written and informative, and they raise questions about the efficacy of such prisons. An important read for researchers, policy makers, and concerned citizens. Highly recommended." * Choice *"The collection draws attention to a troubling potential trend and a complex problem of contemporary social life and thus offers an important contribution to penal and socio-political studies." * Critical Criminology *"The Globalization of Supermax Prisons is the missing puzzle piece in the encrypted and often unspoken portrayal of the global realities of the developmental intricacies and constituencies of supermax prisons. [It] leaves one thinking about the repercussions of supermax institutions, as shaped by socioeconomics and politics, on prisoners' rights." * Law and Politics Book Review *"This book is a fascinating comparative examination of the worldwide proliferation of supermax prisons. The Globalization of Supermax Prisons is a must-read for any student, practitioner, or scholar of punishment and correctional practices." * Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare *"Jeffrey Ian Ross brings together a wealth of information in an extremely useful and important portrait of global supermax prison proliferation." -- Lorna Rhodes * University of Washington, Seattle *"An important and timely collection of essays examining the propagation of the American ‘Supermax’ model around the globe. . . . An essential read for researchers, policy makers and concerned citizens alike." -- Sharon Shalev * author of Supermax: Controlling Risk through Solitary Confinement *"This is a book that legislators, policymakers, practitioners and students should include on a professional reading list. In order to make more informed decisions regarding policies and procedures in our prison systems, it is important to know the history of our systems and how it impacts operations today." * Corrections Today *Table of ContentsForeword: Probing the Meta-Prison, by Loic WacquantAcknowledgments1. The Globalization of Supermax Prisons: An Introduction, by Jeffrey Ian Ross2. The Invention of the American Supermax Prison, by Jeffrey Ian Ross3. How Canada Built Its Supermax Prison, by Jeffrey Ian Ross4. Supermaxes South of the Border, by Patrick O'Day and Thomas O'Connor5. The Growth of the Supermax Option in Britain, by Angela West Crews6. Analyzing the Supermax Prisons in the Netherlands: The Dutch Supermax, by Sandra L. Resodihardjo7. Supermaximum Prisons in South Africa, by Fran Buntman and Lukas Muntingh8. From "Secondary Punishment" to "Supermax": The Human Costs of High-Security Regimes in Australia, by David Brown and Bree Carlton9. The Emergence of the Supermax in New Zealand, by Greg Newbold10. The Rise of the Supermax in Brazil, by Jose de Jesus Filho11. Guantanamo: America's Foreign Supermax in the Fight Against Terrorism, by Jeffrey Ian Ross and Dawn L. Rothe12. A Globalized Militarized Prison Juggernaut: The Case of Abu Ghraib, by Dawn L. Rothe13. Conclusion: Globalization, Innovation, or Neither?, by Jeffrey Ian RossNotesReferencesNotes on Contributors

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Marc Mappen proves an adept storyteller as he takes readers beyond 'Boardwalk Empire.' Mappen spins some good yarns about the gangsters, dominated by New Yorkers, whose rise was triggered by the 18th Amendment, which took effect in 1920, and who proved that, at times, crime not only pays, but pays very well." -- Sam Roberts * New York Times *"Prohibition created an enormous economic opportunity for a generation of young criminals. As chronicled by Marc Mappen, the true, violent, and extravagant lives of these men make dramatizations like Boardwalk Empire look tame by comparison. A must -read for anyone interested in the origins of organized crime in America." -- Nicholas Gage * author of The Mafia is Not an Equal Opportunity Employer *"Kudos to Marc Mappen for producing so riveting a study about a generation of gangland mobsters who used National Prohibition to grab lots of money and petty power for themselves. A big winner of a book about a bunch of lousy looting losers. . . . Fascinating reading. Highly recommended!" -- James Kirby Martin * co-author of Drinking in America: A History, 1620-1980 *"A well researched, historical overview of the major Prohibition era gangsters. These men became the founding fathers of modern organized crime." -- Paul R. Kavieff * author of Detroit's Infamous Purple Gang *"A book about the Prohibition gangsters should be a fascinating and exciting read. Mappen does not disappoint. His fast-moving butauthoritative narrative takes readers through the Prohibition years and beyond as he traces the careers of such underworld luminaries as John Torrio, Al Capone, Lucky Luciano, Meyer Lansky, Legs Diamond, and Dutch Schultz. Mappen’s book is a splendid introduction to the story of a generation of criminals who captured the American imagination." * Journal of American Culture *"Marc Mappen far outstrips his fellow crime writers [when] describing mob activity in smaller U.S. cities. Chicago and New York have been examined enough, so Mappen turns his eye on the Purple Gang of Detroit, the Pendergast machine in Kansas City, and the bootleg wars of Cleveland." * Philadelphia Review of Books *Table of ContentsPrologue: The Bluebird Tattoo Part I. The Rise 1. The Big Fellow in the Windy City 2. Big Battles in the Big Apple 3. Smaller Cities Part II. Atlantic City Interlude 4. Gangsters in the Surf 5. The Conference as Comedy 6. Capone's Long Trip Home Part III. The Fall 7. The Twilight of the Gangster? 8. Pay Your Taxes 9. Lucky v. Dewey 10. Shot to Death 11. Lepke on the Hot Seat 12. For Them, Crime Did Pay Cast of Characters A Note on Sources Acknowledgments Notes Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Leigey's work merits a broad readership. Highly recommended." * CHOICE *"On the whole, the author has accomplished her purpose of helping those that read her book to remember the forgotten men. Achieving that is an accomplishment in itself. One can only hope that other researchers follow Leigey’s lead to help paint a broader picture of the dehumanizing nature of LWOP sentences." * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *"A thought-provoking and challenging book that will generate debates, controversy and disagreements about the issue of imposing life without parole … This book should be read by everyone - wardens, correctional staff, medical staff, law enforcement, prosecutors, judges, parole boards, state directors, commissioners, victims and victims' families." * Corrections Today *"The meticulous work conducted here highlights the largely hidden costs of a life behind bars. It illuminates not only how lifers find hope in a largely hopeless situation but also how these inmates find ways of making the life they have behind bars meaningful, not only to themselves but to those around them. Ultimately, the book is a portrait of mankind’s ability to not only survive in the face of terrible hardship but also to establish meaning and purpose in an environment that regularly reinforces the notion that an inmate’s life has neither." * American Journal of Sociology *"By carefully recording the decades-long experiences of those sentenced to permanent incarceration, Leigey brings a much needed degree of humanity to these forgotten men. In so doing, her important contribution impels readers to consider the purpose served by lifelong prison sentences." -- Ashley Nellis * The Sentencing Project *"The Forgotten Men is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the human costs of mass incarceration in America. A compelling and compassionate account of injustice, inhumane punishment and the resilience of the human spirit, the book lays bare the devastating consequences of unnecessarily extreme sentencing policies." -- Jennifer Turner * author of A Living Death: Life without Parole for Nonviolent Offenses *"A profound and moving work of social science that explains in compelling prose what it means to sentence human beings to live and die in prison. The forgotten men whose life stories frame this book will be long remembered by students of penology. Leigey’s superb book will guide my research and teaching in the coming years." -- Robert Johnson * professor of justice, law and criminology at American University *"The Forgotten Men is a thorough, insightful, and engaging book that provides rich information and in-depth analysis in order to accurately convey the realities of life in prison.Leigey’s book is a unique and cutting-edge contribution." -- Ronald Aday * professor of sociology, Middle Tennessee State University *Table of ContentsPreface: Death by IncarcerationAcknowledgments1 The Rise in the Permanently Incarcerated2 The Forgotten3 The Pains of Permanent Imprisonment4 Coping with Permanent Incarceration5 Growing Old in Prison6 Forgotten No MoreAppendix A: Pseudonyms and Demographics of RespondentsAppendix B: Researching the ForgottenNotesReferencesCasesIndex

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Trade Review"Leigey's work merits a broad readership. Highly recommended." * CHOICE *"On the whole, the author has accomplished her purpose of helping those that read her book to remember the forgotten men. Achieving that is an accomplishment in itself. One can only hope that other researchers follow Leigey’s lead to help paint a broader picture of the dehumanizing nature of LWOP sentences." * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *"A thought-provoking and challenging book that will generate debates, controversy and disagreements about the issue of imposing life without parole … This book should be read by everyone - wardens, correctional staff, medical staff, law enforcement, prosecutors, judges, parole boards, state directors, commissioners, victims and victims' families." * Corrections Today *"The meticulous work conducted here highlights the largely hidden costs of a life behind bars. It illuminates not only how lifers find hope in a largely hopeless situation but also how these inmates find ways of making the life they have behind bars meaningful, not only to themselves but to those around them. Ultimately, the book is a portrait of mankind’s ability to not only survive in the face of terrible hardship but also to establish meaning and purpose in an environment that regularly reinforces the notion that an inmate’s life has neither." * American Journal of Sociology *"By carefully recording the decades-long experiences of those sentenced to permanent incarceration, Leigey brings a much needed degree of humanity to these forgotten men. In so doing, her important contribution impels readers to consider the purpose served by lifelong prison sentences." -- Ashley Nellis * The Sentencing Project *"The Forgotten Men is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the human costs of mass incarceration in America. A compelling and compassionate account of injustice, inhumane punishment and the resilience of the human spirit, the book lays bare the devastating consequences of unnecessarily extreme sentencing policies." -- Jennifer Turner * author of A Living Death: Life without Parole for Nonviolent Offenses *"A profound and moving work of social science that explains in compelling prose what it means to sentence human beings to live and die in prison. The forgotten men whose life stories frame this book will be long remembered by students of penology. Leigey’s superb book will guide my research and teaching in the coming years." -- Robert Johnson * professor of justice, law and criminology at American University *"The Forgotten Men is a thorough, insightful, and engaging book that provides rich information and in-depth analysis in order to accurately convey the realities of life in prison.Leigey’s book is a unique and cutting-edge contribution." -- Ronald Aday * professor of sociology, Middle Tennessee State University *Table of ContentsPreface: Death by IncarcerationAcknowledgments1 The Rise in the Permanently Incarcerated2 The Forgotten3 The Pains of Permanent Imprisonment4 Coping with Permanent Incarceration5 Growing Old in Prison6 Forgotten No MoreAppendix A: Pseudonyms and Demographics of RespondentsAppendix B: Researching the ForgottenNotesReferencesCasesIndex

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Book SynopsisTrafficked children are portrayed by the media - and even by child welfare specialists - as hapless victims who are forced to migrate from a poor country to the United States, where they serve as sex slaves. But as Elzbieta M. Gozdziak reveals in Trafficked Children in the United States, the picture is far more complex.Trade Review"This is a thoughtful and important book about victims of child trafficking. Its strength lies in the juxtaposition of programmatic responses to trafficking with child survivors’ own perceptions of their experiences and needs." -- Alicia Peters * University of New England *"This highly readable, informative text recounts the story of 140 trafficked children as well as the history of this criminal act and its consequences … Goz´dziak recognized the need for a well-researched, objective point of view and presents the challenges and the facts that victims of trafficking face even when identified and rescued from their horrific situations ... Recommended." * Choice *"Gozdziak's work is a welcome addition to the critical study of anti-trafficking institutions and services, a nuanced and compassionate portrayal of the complex lived realities of young people who move and migrate, however precariously, in search of better opportunities and futures." * Refuge *"By centering trafficked youth's voices and experiences, Gozdziak demonstrates the importance of survivor-centered approaches, even when their narratives contradict and complicate current antitrafficking discourse." * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *"This is a thoughtful and important book about victims of child trafficking. Its strength lies in the juxtaposition of programmatic responses to trafficking with child survivors’ own perceptions of their experiences and needs." -- Alicia Peters * University of New England *"This highly readable, informative text recounts the story of 140 trafficked children as well as the history of this criminal act and its consequences … Goździak recognized the need for a well-researched, objective point of view and presents the challenges and the facts that victims of trafficking face even when identified and rescued from their horrific situations ... Recommended." * Choice *"Gozdziak's work is a welcome addition to the critical study of anti-trafficking institutions and services, a nuanced and compassionate portrayal of the complex lived realities of young people who move and migrate, however precariously, in search of better opportunities and futures." * Refuge *"By centering trafficked youth's voices and experiences, Gozdziak demonstrates the importance of survivor-centered approaches, even when their narratives contradict and complicate current antitrafficking discourse." * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *Table of Contents AcknowledgmentsPrologue: Afong Means StrengthIntroduction: Researching and Writing about Child TraffickingPart IMoral Panics1 “Tidal Waves” of Trafficking2 The Old and New AbolitionistsPart II “Captured”3 Snakeheads, Coyotes, and . . . Mothers4 Not Chained to a Bed in a BrothelPart III “Rescued”5 Hidden in Plain Sight6 Jail the Offender, Protect the VictimPart IV “Restored” 7 Idealized Childhoods8 Healing the WoundedEpilogue: Everyday Struggles Notes Bibliography Index

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Trade Review"Excellently written, logical, and coherent, The Methamphetamine Industry in America is an exemplary book that is quite unique in focusing exclusively on the macro-scale methamphetamine industry." -- Thomas Mieczkowski * University of South Florida *"The Methamphetamine Industry in America is best described as Breaking Bad from a sociological perspective." * Contemporary Sociology *"This multi-method study of the social networks involved in the distribution and manufacture of methamphetamine provides a level of understanding unmatched in previous research. Using multiple sources, the authors masterfully weave a tale that reflects the complexities of the business while using personal stories to present a human face on larger social processes." -- Dr. Ralph A. Weisheit * Illinois State University *"Brownstein, Mulcahy, and Huessy weave interviews with users, dealers, producers, and law enforcement professionals involved in the methamphetamine drug trade to give readers a vision of the local, national, and international drug industry. The authors adopt a social organization approach to identify and analyze social patterns among the people involved in the meth trade. Useful for professionals responsible for prevention and treatment services and enforcement of drug laws as well as students in these areas. Recommended." * Choice *"Excellently written, logical, and coherent, The Methamphetamine Industry in America is an exemplary book that is quite unique in focusing exclusively on the macro-scale methamphetamine industry." -- Thomas Mieczkowski * University of South Florida *"The Methamphetamine Industry in America is best described as Breaking Bad from a sociological perspective." * Contemporary Sociology *"This multi-method study of the social networks involved in the distribution and manufacture of methamphetamine provides a level of understanding unmatched in previous research. Using multiple sources, the authors masterfully weave a tale that reflects the complexities of the business while using personal stories to present a human face on larger social processes." -- Dr. Ralph A. Weisheit * Illinois State University *"Brownstein, Mulcahy, and Huessy weave interviews with users, dealers, producers, and law enforcement professionals involved in the methamphetamine drug trade to give readers a vision of the local, national, and international drug industry. The authors adopt a social organization approach to identify and analyze social patterns among the people involved in the meth trade. Useful for professionals responsible for prevention and treatment services and enforcement of drug laws as well as students in these areas. Recommended." * Choice *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgments1Understanding Methamphetamine Markets as an Industry2Methamphetamine in America3Social Activity in the Methamphetamine Industry4Social Relationships in the Methamphetamine Industry5 The Culture of the Methamphetamine Industry6Meth Markets and the Methamphetamine Industry in the United StatesAppendix: The Study of the Dynamics of Methamphetamine MarketsReferencesIndex 

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Book SynopsisExamines the lives of young people who spent considerable time in and out of correctional institutions as adolescents. This book narrates the day-to-day experiences of these young men and women, focusing on their attempts to surmount the challenges of adulthood, resisting a return to criminal activity, and formulating long-term goals for a secure adult future.Trade Review"Their sensitive appraisal of the intersecting social forces and social institutions, as well as the internal struggles that young people face, shines through in this book."— The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice "Everyday Desistance is a humanizing portrait of a group of young adults which brings readers to a compassionate understanding of their hardships as well as a great degree of admiration for their triumphs."— Ashley Nellis, The Sentencing Project "Timely, interesting, and well-written, the authors provide a comprehensive examination with accessible stories and ideas. Everyday Desistance fills a niche that needs to be filled."— Mercer L. Sullivan, author of Getting Paid: Youth Crime and Work in the Inner City "There is much to be gained from both a policy and theory perspective by reading Everyday Desistance. It is a well-written and engaging study that contributes to knowledge about re-entry and the journey toward desistance....We can learn a lot about how to help them reach this goal by reading this book." — Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books "This book is a must read for anyone looking to understand the complex daily choices of desistance and to support formerly incarcerated young people to not only survive in adulthood but also to thrive. For me, the book goes beyond the confines of juvenile justice readership — it holds important lessons for anyone working in child welfare to consider their work in the larger picture of poverty, community, incarceration and reentry."— Juvenile Justice Information Exchange "Everyday Desistance stands out as an important contribution to the now burgeoning literature on desistance." — European Journal of Probation Reposting of JJIE's "BOOK REVIEWS Book Review: ‘Everyday Desistance: The Transition to Adulthood Among Formerly Incarcerated Youth'"— Youth Today "Laura Abrams and Diane Terry offer a richly detailed account of ‘formerly incarcerated youth’ and their struggle to emerge as adults. Desistance is part of the story, and the authors tell it well." — Children & Society "Using in-depth, in-person interviews, UCLA social welfare professor Laura S. Abrams and Diane J. Terry... have presented a more nuanced portrait of life after juvie" "Abrams and Terry collected firsthand stories and insights to answer the following questions: What does everyday life look like for young people who age out of the juvenile justice system? And how do young people navigate the transition to adulthood while attempting to stay out of the hands of the law?"— Stan Paul, UCLA LuskinTable of ContentsContents Foreword by Michelle Inderbitzin, PhD 1 Introduction 2 The Road to Juvie 3 Locked Up and Back Again 4 And Now I’m an Adult 5 Dangers and Decisions: Navigating Desistance as a Young Man 6 You Can Run but You Can’t Hide 7 Finding a Net to Fall Back On: The Young Woman’s Journeys 8 Everyday Desistance: Theory Meets Reality 9 Policy and Practice Reforms: Supporting the Pathway to Adulthood Acknowledgments Appendix: The Research Process Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe 1990s witnessed a flurry of legislative initiatives designed to control a population of sex offenders (child abusers) widely reviled as sick, evil, and incurable. In Sex Offenders, Stigma, and Social Control, Diana Rickard provides the reader with an in-depth view of six such men, exploring how they manage to cope with their highly stigmatized role as social outcasts.Trade Review"A timely and important book … Readers unfamiliar with the functions and consequences of sex offender registration and community notification laws will find an engaging, easy-to-read discussion of such policies. Scholars familiar with sex offender registration and community notification will likewise find value here – value that is centered on the focus of what creates the negative outcomes for individuals, and not just the collateral consequences." * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *“[Sex Offenders, Stigma, and Social Control] may be very useful for other scholars exploring identity construction and integration as well as the ways people make sense, narrate, and respond to stigma in the course of their lives… It does provide an intriguing and nuanced portrait of the ways such dynamics play out in relation to one of the most controversial and heavily stigmatized social locations in contemporary society.” * Symbolic Interaction *"Rickard’s work is an important one on a subject that has not adequately been studied, namely the status of sex offenders and the present ‘moral panic.’ Clear, organized, and well-researched, Sex Offenders, Stigma, and Social Control is both distinctive and brave." -- Lynn Chancer * Hunter College *"Draws on interviews in a study of six men convicted of a sexual offense against a minor; focuses on their self-perceptions and experience of social stigma and isolation after incarceration or lesser sanction." * Chronicle *"A timely and important book … Readers unfamiliar with the functions and consequences of sex offender registration and community notification laws will find an engaging, easy-to-read discussion of such policies. Scholars familiar with sex offender registration and community notification will likewise find value here – value that is centered on the focus of what creates the negative outcomes for individuals, and not just the collateral consequences." * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *"Rickard’s work is an important one on a subject that has not adequately been studied, namely the status of sex offenders and the present ‘moral panic.’ Clear, organized, and well-researched, Sex Offenders, Stigma, and Social Control is both distinctive and brave." -- Lynn Chancer * Hunter College *“[Sex Offenders, Stigma, and Social Control] may be very useful for other scholars exploring identity construction and integration as well as the ways people make sense, narrate, and respond to stigma in the course of their lives… It does provide an intriguing and nuanced portrait of the ways such dynamics play out in relation to one of the most controversial and heavily stigmatized social locations in contemporary society.” * Symbolic Interaction *"Draws on interviews in a study of six men convicted of a sexual offense against a minor; focuses on their self-perceptions and experience of social stigma and isolation after incarceration or lesser sanction." * Chronicle *Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgements1 Towards a Sociology of Sexual Offense2 Constructing the Offense3 Community Bonds4 Severed Bonds5 Strategies to Re-Establish Social Bonds6 Personal Stories/Public PolicyAppendixNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisIn When Riot Cops Are Not Enough, sociologist Mike King examines the policing, and broader political repression, of the Occupy Oakland movement. King’s active and daily participation in that movement provides a unique insider perspective to illustrate how the Oakland police and city administrators lost the ability to effectively control the movement. Trade Review"Clear, concise, and compelling, When Riot Cops Are Not Enough is not only a deep and rich narrative, but an extremely valuable piece of ethnographic research." -- Patrick Gillham * department of sociology, Western Washington University *"As a piece of public sociology, the book furthers understanding of the policies and the politics of repression and social control." * American Journal of Sociology *"By charting the tight interplay of resistance and repression that connects the murder of Oscar Grant to the Occupy Movement in Oakland and beyond, Mike King's book provides an essential weapon for our collective arsenal." -- George Ciccariello-Maher * author of We Created Chávez *"Mike King has produced a fascinating study of the repression of Occupy Oakland. His groundbreaking analysis ?makes sense of one of the most significant political episodes in recent American history. This is a compelling demonstration of what theoretically informed activist research can achieve." -- Andrej Grubacic * author of Living at the Edges of Capitalism *“Vital, important and compelling, Mike King offers a nuanced accounting of the cat-and-mouse game of social protest and social control. Grounded in the experience of Occupy Oakland, When Riot Cops Are Not Enough is immensely relevant to the upcoming generation of militant activists, engaged scholars and community police.” "As a piece of public sociology, the book furthers understanding of the policies and the politics of repression and social control." * American Journal of Sociology *"Clear, concise, and compelling, When Riot Cops Are Not Enough is not only a deep and rich narrative, but an extremely valuable piece of ethnographic research." -- Patrick Gillham * department of sociology, Western Washington University *"By charting the tight interplay of resistance and repression that connects the murder of Oscar Grant to the Occupy Movement in Oakland and beyond, Mike King's book provides an essential weapon for our collective arsenal." -- George Ciccariello-Maher * author of We Created Chávez *"Mike King has produced a fascinating study of the repression of Occupy Oakland. His groundbreaking analysis makes sense of one of the most significant political episodes in recent American history. This is a compelling demonstration of what theoretically informed activist research can achieve." -- Andrej Grubacic * author of Living at the Edges of Capitalism *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1 The Commune by the Bay: The Origins of Occupy Oakland2 From Permits to Storm Troopers: Repression, Social Control, and the Governmentality of Protest3 The Oakland Commune, Police Violence, and Political Opportunity4 Legitimation Repression through Depoliticizing It: Federal Coordination, “Health and Safety,” and the November 2011 Occupy Evictions5 Putting the Occupy Oakland Vigil to Sleep: Anti-Gang Techniques and the Oakland Police Department’s State of Exception6 The Meshing of Force and Legitimacy in the Repression of Occupy Oakland’s Move-In Day7 Poison in the Garden: A Spring of Seeds That Never Grew
8 Beyond Control: Fostering Legitimate Counter-Conduct NotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisIn When Riot Cops Are Not Enough, sociologist Mike King examines the policing, and broader political repression, of the Occupy Oakland movement. King’s active and daily participation in that movement provides a unique insider perspective to illustrate how the Oakland police and city administrators lost the ability to effectively control the movement. Trade Review"Clear, concise, and compelling, When Riot Cops Are Not Enough is not only a deep and rich narrative, but an extremely valuable piece of ethnographic research." -- Patrick Gillham * department of sociology, Western Washington University *"As a piece of public sociology, the book furthers understanding of the policies and the politics of repression and social control." * American Journal of Sociology *"By charting the tight interplay of resistance and repression that connects the murder of Oscar Grant to the Occupy Movement in Oakland and beyond, Mike King's book provides an essential weapon for our collective arsenal." -- George Ciccariello-Maher * author of We Created Chávez *"Mike King has produced a fascinating study of the repression of Occupy Oakland. His groundbreaking analysis ?makes sense of one of the most significant political episodes in recent American history. This is a compelling demonstration of what theoretically informed activist research can achieve." -- Andrej Grubacic * author of Living at the Edges of Capitalism *“Vital, important and compelling, Mike King offers a nuanced accounting of the cat-and-mouse game of social protest and social control. Grounded in the experience of Occupy Oakland, When Riot Cops Are Not Enough is immensely relevant to the upcoming generation of militant activists, engaged scholars and community police.” "As a piece of public sociology, the book furthers understanding of the policies and the politics of repression and social control." * American Journal of Sociology *"Clear, concise, and compelling, When Riot Cops Are Not Enough is not only a deep and rich narrative, but an extremely valuable piece of ethnographic research." -- Patrick Gillham * department of sociology, Western Washington University *"By charting the tight interplay of resistance and repression that connects the murder of Oscar Grant to the Occupy Movement in Oakland and beyond, Mike King's book provides an essential weapon for our collective arsenal." -- George Ciccariello-Maher * author of We Created Chávez *"Mike King has produced a fascinating study of the repression of Occupy Oakland. His groundbreaking analysis makes sense of one of the most significant political episodes in recent American history. This is a compelling demonstration of what theoretically informed activist research can achieve." -- Andrej Grubacic * author of Living at the Edges of Capitalism *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments1 The Commune by the Bay: The Origins of Occupy Oakland2 From Permits to Storm Troopers: Repression, Social Control, and the Governmentality of Protest3 The Oakland Commune, Police Violence, and Political Opportunity4 Legitimation Repression through Depoliticizing It: Federal Coordination, “Health and Safety,” and the November 2011 Occupy Evictions5 Putting the Occupy Oakland Vigil to Sleep: Anti-Gang Techniques and the Oakland Police Department’s State of Exception6 The Meshing of Force and Legitimacy in the Repression of Occupy Oakland’s Move-In Day7 Poison in the Garden: A Spring of Seeds That Never Grew
8 Beyond Control: Fostering Legitimate Counter-Conduct NotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisThe contributors analyze the processes, products, and efficacy of a number of transitional justice mechanisms. Adler has gathered leading specialists to scrutinize the responses to and effects of violent pasts and to provide new perspectives for understanding and applying transitional justice mechanisms in an effort to stop the recycling of old repressions into new ones. Trade Review"Bringing together some of the most notable voices in the field, this volume moves away from the often narrow focus of other treatments of transitional justice—situating and evaluating the effect of accountability mechanisms within a larger social, cultural, and political context." -- Ronald Slye * coauthor of International Criminal Law and Its Enforcement *“This rich and interesting volume goes beyond the legal understanding of Transitional Justice in order to address the challenge of post-conflict societies. A valuable and important contribution to the current literature.” -- Elazar Barkan * Columbia University *"Chronicle of Higher Education weekly book list," by Nina C. Ayoub * Chronicle of Higher Education *"With an extraordinary and impressively informative body of seminal scholarship by experts in the subject of transitional justice that is unreservedly recommended for both community and academic library collections, it should be noted for the personal reading lists of students, academia, social activists, and non-specialist general readers with an interest in the subject that Understanding the Age of Transitional Justice is also available in a paperback edition and in a digital book format." * Midwest Book Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction: On History, Historians, and Transitional Justice Nanci Adler Part I: Truth and Justice Chapter 1: Swinging the Pendulum: Fin de Siècle Historians in the Courts Vladimir Petrović Chapter 2: Time, Justice and Human Rights: Statutory Limitation on the Right to Truth? William A. Schabas Chapter 3: How Truth Recovery Can Benefit from a Conditional Amnesty Jeremy Sarkin Chapter 4: New Epistemologies for Confronting International Crimes: Developing the IDP Approach to Transitional Justice Stephan Parmentier, Mina Rauschenbach, and Maarten van Craen Part II: The Trial Record Chapter 5: The Spark for Genocide? Propaganda and Historical Narratives at International Criminal Tribunals Richard Ashby Wilson Chapter 6: The International Criminal Trial Record as Historical Source Thijs B. Bouwknegt Part III: The Afterlife of Transitional Justice Processes Chapter 7: Narrating (In)Justice in the Form of a Reparation Claim: Bottom-up Reflections on a Post-Colonial Setting – The Rawagede Case Nicole L. Immler Chapter 8: Collective and Competitive Victimhood as Identity in the Former Yugoslavia Christian Axboe Nielsen Chapter 9: Perpetrator-Victims: How Universal Victimhood in Cambodia Impacts Transitional Justice Measures Timothy Williams Chapter 10: Collective Crimes, Collective Memory, and Transitional Justice in Bangladesh Kjell Anderson Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThe contributors analyze the processes, products, and efficacy of a number of transitional justice mechanisms. Adler has gathered leading specialists to scrutinize the responses to and effects of violent pasts and to provide new perspectives for understanding and applying transitional justice mechanisms in an effort to stop the recycling of old repressions into new ones. Trade Review"Bringing together some of the most notable voices in the field, this volume moves away from the often narrow focus of other treatments of transitional justice—situating and evaluating the effect of accountability mechanisms within a larger social, cultural, and political context." -- Ronald Slye * coauthor of International Criminal Law and Its Enforcement *“This rich and interesting volume goes beyond the legal understanding of Transitional Justice in order to address the challenge of post-conflict societies. A valuable and important contribution to the current literature.” -- Elazar Barkan * Columbia University *"Chronicle of Higher Education weekly book list," by Nina C. Ayoub * Chronicle of Higher Education *"With an extraordinary and impressively informative body of seminal scholarship by experts in the subject of transitional justice that is unreservedly recommended for both community and academic library collections, it should be noted for the personal reading lists of students, academia, social activists, and non-specialist general readers with an interest in the subject that Understanding the Age of Transitional Justice is also available in a paperback edition and in a digital book format." * Midwest Book Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction: On History, Historians, and Transitional Justice Nanci Adler Part I: Truth and Justice Chapter 1: Swinging the Pendulum: Fin de Siècle Historians in the Courts Vladimir Petrović Chapter 2: Time, Justice and Human Rights: Statutory Limitation on the Right to Truth? William A. Schabas Chapter 3: How Truth Recovery Can Benefit from a Conditional Amnesty Jeremy Sarkin Chapter 4: New Epistemologies for Confronting International Crimes: Developing the IDP Approach to Transitional Justice Stephan Parmentier, Mina Rauschenbach, and Maarten van Craen Part II: The Trial Record Chapter 5: The Spark for Genocide? Propaganda and Historical Narratives at International Criminal Tribunals Richard Ashby Wilson Chapter 6: The International Criminal Trial Record as Historical Source Thijs B. Bouwknegt Part III: The Afterlife of Transitional Justice Processes Chapter 7: Narrating (In)Justice in the Form of a Reparation Claim: Bottom-up Reflections on a Post-Colonial Setting – The Rawagede Case Nicole L. Immler Chapter 8: Collective and Competitive Victimhood as Identity in the Former Yugoslavia Christian Axboe Nielsen Chapter 9: Perpetrator-Victims: How Universal Victimhood in Cambodia Impacts Transitional Justice Measures Timothy Williams Chapter 10: Collective Crimes, Collective Memory, and Transitional Justice in Bangladesh Kjell Anderson Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThere is powerful evidence that the colonization of Indigenous people was and is a crime, and that that crime is on-going. The consequences of this oppression and criminal victimization is perhaps the critical factor explaining why Indigenous people today are overrepresented as victims and offenders in the settler colonist criminal justice systems.Trade Review“The authors of Colonialism is Crime did an exceptional job of analyzing criminal acts within the context of contemporary standards of international law and human rights violations. I was immensely impressed with this book, and am confident that it will fill a major void in the criminological literature.” — Gary W. Potter, Eastern Kentucky University "This book adds a significant voice to the argument regarding colonization as crime and colonization as the root of injustice for Indigenous peoples. Importantly, it furthers the assertion that colonization is ongoing."— Cheryl Bennett, contributor to Crime and Social Justice in Indian CountryTable of ContentsForeword 1 Introduction: Crimes Against Indigenous Peoples, 1 2 Breaking and Bending the Law Historically, 45 3 Fraud, Theft, and the Trail of Broken Treaties, 71 4 Massacres to Murder: Violence Against Indigenous Peoples, 112 5 Institutionalized Torture and Pedophilia: Boarding Schools for Indigenous Children, 147 6 Conquest by Rape and Violence: Crimes against Indigenous Women, 193 7 The Conestoga Indians, Hate Crimes, and Domestic Terrorism, 245 8 Stolen Land to Stolen Oil: The Theft of Indigenous Political Economies, 275 9 Would You Drink This Water?: Crimes of Pollution and Toxic Dumping on Indigenous Lands, 301 10 Fighting Back: Colonial Settler Responsibilities and Indigenous Action, 333 Bibliography, 371 Index About the Authors

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Book SynopsisThere is powerful evidence that the colonization of Indigenous people was and is a crime, and that that crime is on-going. In this book Nielsen and Robyn present an analysis of the relationship between these colonial crimes and their continuing criminal and socially injurious consequences that exist today.Trade Review“The authors of Colonialism is Crime did an exceptional job of analyzing criminal acts within the context of contemporary standards of international law and human rights violations. I was immensely impressed with this book, and am confident that it will fill a major void in the criminological literature.” -- Gary W. Potter * Eastern Kentucky University *"This book adds a significant voice to the argument regarding colonization as crime and colonization as the root of injustice for Indigenous peoples. Importantly, it furthers the assertion that colonization is ongoing." -- Cheryl Bennett * contributor to Crime and Social Justice in Indian Country *Table of ContentsForeword 1 Introduction: Crimes Against Indigenous Peoples, 1 2 Breaking and Bending the Law Historically, 45 3 Fraud, Theft, and the Trail of Broken Treaties, 71 4 Massacres to Murder: Violence Against Indigenous Peoples, 112 5 Institutionalized Torture and Pedophilia: Boarding Schools for Indigenous Children, 147 6 Conquest by Rape and Violence: Crimes against Indigenous Women, 193 7 The Conestoga Indians, Hate Crimes, and Domestic Terrorism, 245 8 Stolen Land to Stolen Oil: The Theft of Indigenous Political Economies, 275 9 Would You Drink This Water?: Crimes of Pollution and Toxic Dumping on Indigenous Lands, 301 10 Fighting Back: Colonial Settler Responsibilities and Indigenous Action, 333 Bibliography, 371 Index About the Authors

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Book SynopsisProvides an overview and evaluation of the underlying assumptions of criminologyTrade Review"A brilliant and consequential treatise--a contemporary classic. For those with the courage to rethink the criminological enterprise, this is a must read." Francis T. Cullen, co-author of Criminological Theory "Agnew has elegantly captured the assumptions, insights, predictions, and evidence of the various theories, summarized several literatures, and initiated the process of developing a general and unified theory of crime." Alex R. Piquero, author of Key Issues in Criminal Careers ResearchTable of ContentsPreface 1 A Divided Criminology 2 The Scope of the Discipline: What Is Crime? 3 Determinism versus Agency: Is Crime the Result of Forces beyond the Individual's Control or Free Choice? 4 The Nature of Human Nature: Are People Self-Interested, Socially Concerned, or Blank Slates? 5 The Nature of Society: Is Society Characterized by Consensus or Conflict? 6 The Nature of Reality: Is There an Objective Reality That Can Be Accurately Measured? 7 A Unified Criminology Notes Bibliography Name Index Subject Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisArgues that the prison systems of California and Texas during the Depression set the tone for the identity roles of the 30sTrade ReviewTimely and required reading for all interested in the history of Californias criminal justice system. * California History *Doing Time in the Depression compellingly connects prisoners to the social, political, and economic turmoil of the 1930s. * American Historical Review *This reviewer is very happy to see this very much needed and important book on an earlier time of incarceration in the U.S., especially with all the discussion today about mass incarceration. -- E. Smith * CHOICE *Ethan Blue's brilliant, original study of the last time doing time was so extraordinarily ordinary reveals how distinctive 1930s prison regimes converged in a singular achievement. They renovated racism, inequality, and vulnerability to premature death for the purpose of producing public revenues and legitimacy, at the expense of modestly educated people in the prime of life. Doing Time in the Depression is required reading for all who focus their energies on today's mass incarceration and other forms of dispossession. -- Ruth Wilson Gilmore,author of Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing CaliforniaEthan Blue demonstrates that these present problems originate in a troubled past. Long histories of conquest, colonialism, enslavement and exploitation produced the patterns that pervade prison systems past and present. Court decisions and punitive practices that rendered people convicted of crimes as civilly dead in the nineteenth century provided the inner logic for a legal system that criminalized the survival strategies of oppressed people, protecting the propertied classes but in the process producing the very forms of non-normative behavior that the prison system purported to prevent. The prison system has functioned historically as a way of controlling and exploiting surplus labor. Yet all social structures ultimately revolve around human agency. Blues sophisticated research design and his extensive empirical research enable him to explore in this book the world that the prisoners made despite the many things they could not control. He shows that the history of macrococial practices and institutions encompass micropolitics of oppression and opposition. Blue argues that inmate investments in particular understandings of masculinity tragically enabled prison administrators to foment a radical divisiveness across racial lines that impeded chances for class solidarity. -- George Lipsitz * Australasian Journal of American Studies *During the Great Depression, inmate populations in Texas and California grew exponentially, reflecting the dire straits of many individuals amidst the economic downturn. Blue argues that the prison complexes of the two states reflected a cultural legacy of racial and class hierarchy and exclusion, and acted as a socioeconomic crutch during this period of schism and reintegration. Ultimately, prisons used violence and coercion to maintain a status quo that reinforced white supremacy and capitalist prerogative. * Journal of the West *Blue innovatively deconstructs one of the strangest narratives of the ordinary convict. He breaks new ground. * Journal of Popular Culture *Doing Time in the Depressiontaps prison newspapers, radio transcripts, autobiographies from inmates and guards, and official documents from the California and Texas prison systems to create a compelling, imaginative look at an off-limits environment. . . .Doing Time bristles with insights useful to scholars of incarceration, gender, culture, and the Depression era. Blue sympathizes with prisoners, although he avoids demonizing their overseers. He has humanized people whose actions forced them into a dehumanizing world. * Journal of Social History *Doing Time in the Depression offers a rich, complicated view of prison life in Californiaand Texas during the worst economic decade in twentieth-century America.We are inBlues debt for this densely researched, beautifully written, and wide-rangingexamination of prison life during the Great Depression. Doing Time in the Depression isa must-read for people concerned with working-class life in twentieth-century America. * Labor *Doing Time in the Depressionshines especially brightly . . . as Blue takes us inside the world of prison sports. * Journal of American History *Ethan Blue presents such a dose of western scholarship in his complex and stark publication Doing Time in the Depression. Melding the U.S. borderlands, racial hierarchies, immigration politics, prison economies, and gender constructions, Blue builds a devastating study that illuminates a violence far removed from the invented western 'valor and daring' or 'glory and victory' favored by scriptwriters and novelists. * The Western Historical Quarterly *Blue, an assistant professor of history at the University of Western Australia, has written a book that does many things well. But perhaps most pleasing and revelatory is the books rich description, often in the words of the inmates themselves. * Triquarterly *Doing Time offers a nuanced portrait of incarceration in a period that has been frequently overlooked by prison historiography. One of the books many strengths is the voluminous sources the author manages to weave into analysis and narrative, as well as its deft balancing of macro structural concerns (e.g. formal patterns of racial domination) with fine-grain attention to the minutia of inmate experience. * Punishment & Society *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1 Of Bodies and Borders: The Demography of Incarceration 2 Work in the Walled City: Labor and Discipline in California's Prisons 3 From Can See to Can't: Agricultural Labor and Industrial Reform on Texas Penal Plantations 4 Shifting Markets of Power: Building Tenders, Con Bosses, Queens, and Guards 5 Thirty Minutes behind the Walls: Prison Radio and the Popular Culture of Punishment 6 Sport and Celebration in the Popular Culture of Punishment 7 A Dark Cloud Would Go Over: Death and Dying 8 Going Home Epilogue Notes Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisAre the unemployed more likely to commit crimes? Does having a job make one less likely to commit a crime? This book offers a carefully nuanced understanding of the links among work, unemployment, and crime.Trade ReviewGet a Joboffers a detailed discussion of labor-market stratification and crime. Readers will find an unconventional combination of scholarly work and personal voice, with nuanced descriptions of anomalies and discrepancies, and a detailed agenda for future study. * Social Forces *[] Get a Job offers a detailed discussion of labor-market stratification and crime. Readers will find an unconventional combination of scholarly work and personal voice, with nuanced descriptions of anomalies and discrepancies, and a detailed agenda for future study. * Social Forces *Get a Job takes a giant step to unravel the modern paradox of declining crime in the midst of deepening fissures in contemporary labor markets. Crutchfield weaves evidence from across the social sciences and the lived experiences of increasingly marginalized workers to advance a theory of persistent crime, stratified labor, and deepening economic inequality in the modern world of transient and futureless jobs. More than a strong read, it sets an agenda for the next generation of research on crime and work in the new Western economies. -- Jeff Fagan,co-editor, The Changing Borders of Juvenile Justice: Waiver of Adolescents to the Criminal CourtCrutchfields much anticipated Get a Job delivers! In it, he draws from his decades of storied research, together with personal insights, to tease out the complex relationship of the economy and work to crime. This sophisticated yet highly engaging work distills key insights, making sense of seemingly paradoxical historical trends and cross-national comparisons, while carefully embedding the analysis in the intersections of race, class, and gender. Get a Job is an excellent, important, and timely resource. -- Jody Miller,author, Getting Played: African American Girls, Urban Inequality, and Gendered ViolenceTable of ContentsAcknowledgments 1 Modern Miserables: Labor Market Influences on Crime 2 "Get a Job": The Connection between Work and Crime 3 Why Do They Do It? The Potential for Criminality 4 "I Don't Want No Damn Slave Job!": The Effects of Lack of Employment Opportunities 5 "Life in the Hood": How Social Context Matters 6 Lessons from the Hole in the Wall Gang 7 Toward a More General Explanation of Employment and Crime 8 A Tale of My Two Cities Appendix: Data Notes Index About the Author

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